Creating dynamic nested Active Directory groups, what we call dynasties, is an incredibly easy way to ensure your most used and most important Active Directory groups are accurate.  The premise is simple: every organization needs AD groups for each location, department, and manager; all the information is in Active Directory so make them dynamic.  A…

After 200 entries and a lot of work to make the bingo hopper actually hold all of the paper entry slips that we created, we have a winner for the free full conference pass for TechEd 2010 in New Orleans! We will contact the winner via phone and email today but in case the winner cannot…

We aren’t big on the pranks at Imanami but we had to do at least one so we stole a page from The Office and be-jello’d our CEO’s stapler.  Be-jello’ing is sort of like bedazzling but with Jello instead of rhinestones.  I hear it’s all the rage in Paris this season. One very serious prank…

I presented a webinar today on the common pitfalls in Active Directory self service.  I would link to a recording but as usual I forgot to hit that red record button at the beginning.  Luckily, Imanami has a blog so that we can save the ideas for posterity. First off, why do you want to offer…

For most of us, the decision to buy software comes down to saving time and saving money. If we don’t save one or the other, then what is the point? We know in the business of IT that time is money. But how do you show that to your CFO, or to the business unit…

To manage Active Directory user accounts; that’s quite a statement.  It evokes an image of constantly working on a user account, ensuring its accuracy, checking on its well being, and probably calling the user herself every once in a while to see how life is going.  It is also one of the phrases that brings…